Date of birth:

June 12th, 1897 (Brandwijk/South Holland, Netherlands)

Date of death:

April 11th, 1945 (Zijpe/North Holland, Netherlands)

Buried on:

Dutch Honorary Cemetery Bloemendaal
Plot: 36. 

Nationality:

Dutch

Lived in Amsterdam, Witte de Withstraat 82-I. Son of Antonie Bons and Pietertje van Vliet. Married Johanna Bak on 4 August 1920, born 24 August 1896 in Dordrecht (three children). First a primary school teacher, later a maths and physics teacher at the Dr Hendrik Bavinck Ulo School in Amsterdam and the MTS at the Plantage Muidergracht. Reformed.
Member of the resistance belonging to the Van Dongen/Van Dijk group and the KP-Reintje de Vos, which he founded in the summer of 1944 together with his son Antonie Pieter Bons. This last group later transferred to the BS-unit Bruggenlinie-West. Bons, who used the aliases Van Dijk, Van Dongen and Karel, helped people in hiding and British pilots, among others, and was involved in forging identity cards and documents. Together with Johannes Petrus van Kan of Group 2000, he provided 1800 to 2000 people in hiding in Amsterdam with both false and real papers. On 20 March 1945 he was appointed head quartermaster of KP-Amsterdam. At the end of 1944, the Bons family lived in the ground floor apartment at Händelstraat 1hs in Amsterdam. This property was rented under a false name. In addition to storing food, resistance meetings were regularly held here. This attracted the attention of the upstairs neighbour and main resident, Jan Piersma (47), who passed this information on to the SD. The entire family and four KP members present were arrested on 27 March 1945 during a raid by the SD. Bons was executed by firing squad at Zijpersluis along with nine others, including his son and Van Kan, as reprisal for sabotaging the road surface.
His name is on the memorial stone on the facade of the building at Witte de Withstraat 80 in Amsterdam and the monument De Opgeheven Hand (The Raised Hand), which was erected at the execution site.
A street in Amsterdam is named after him.
On 5 February 1985, he was posthumously awarded the Yad Vashem decoration, as were his twin sons Antonie Pieter and Jacobus Pieter.
He was also posthumously awarded the Resistance Cross of Honour.
Shortly after the war, a memorial stone bearing his name was placed at the Dr H. Bavinck School in Amsterdam-Noord.

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